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  • adjective shaped like the tail of an animal

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Examples

  • As they came to the join where the tail-shaped wing of the building met the body, Miw-Sher pressed her finger against a stone in the wall and it opened.

    Acorna's Rebels McCaffrey, Anne 2003

  • Eskimo's tail-shaped fur coats -- of men wrecked on the shores of Asia who might have qualified for Darwin's missing link, inasmuch as they wore "tails."

    Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903

  • The secret, revealed by scanning electron microscope, lies in the silk's tail-shaped protein fibres which change structure in response to water.

    News 2010

  • The secret, revealed by scanning electron microscope, lies in the silk's tail-shaped protein fibres which change structure in response to water.

    News 2010

  • Images of the aquatic mammals are all over, from tail-shaped sun screens to the costumed character greeting guests and posing for pictures near the park entrance.

    Hispanic Business Magazine 2010

  • MESSENGER was also able to probe Mercury's tenuous atmosphere, called an exosphere, and found that two elements known to exist in its tail-shaped region, sodium and calcium, were not distributed evenly.

    Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2008

  • PhysOrg reports how it works: "The secret ... lies in the silk's tail-shaped protein fibres which change structure in response to water.

    TreeHugger 2010

  • PhysOrg reports how it works: "The secret ... lies in the silk's tail-shaped protein fibres which change structure in response to water.

    TreeHugger 2010

  • PhysOrg reports how it works: "The secret ... lies in the silk's tail-shaped protein fibres which change structure in response to water.

    TreeHugger 2010

  • PhysOrg reports how it works: "The secret ... lies in the silk's tail-shaped protein fibres which change structure in response to water.

    TreeHugger 2010

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